The Zearing Local has just picked up quite a lot of bulkhead flatcars, all to be stored on the remains of the wye in Ladd. Here it is seen crossing a random trestle in about as close to the middle... (more)

The crew of the Zearing Local is now facing the nemesis of railroading in the winter: a frozen switch. They are now attempting to de-ice the switch using a combination of brute force and heat.

After creating Ladd's only rush hour by blocking the crossing for a good 20 minutes pushing cars into the siding, NKC 3 has now finally pulled forward with a lot less cars than it previsouly had(2... (more)

Local arrived from Innsbruck. Right : parked EMU. Left : Regional to Salzburg. Background "Wilder Kaiser"-mountains.

TP&W's East Peoria Local delivers 40 loads to ADM on the old Rock Island River Track lead on the south side of town.

empty copper concentrate cars

Lansdale based local working Bethlehem Branch

Headed north to Urbana with 8 cars and three locomotives. (1 SD40T-2 and 2 GP38's) In urbana this local will drop all cars and head north to West Liberty.

Setting at Maitland waiting for a track warrant to procede around the connection onto the Urbana Sub (ex-Erie) then north to Urbana.

Bluebonnet GP30 2435 and a BN GP15-1 lead a westbound local through Rochelle.

Two recently rebuilt GP38-2's hurry this westbound local across the Juniata River Bridge at Ryde in front of four other hotshot westbounds.

All these Erie 2-8-2's were gone by 1952. As a 17 year old in 1950, my interest was the shiny bright new diesels that were coming out. It didn't take me long to realize that I better take pictur... (more)

The MUD local brings down a bunch of cement hoppers from Lehigh Cement and take an equal amount back up the line. Props to Doug B. for the help.